Seersucker Whipsaw, great crime fiction which loses some energy at the end. Written in the 1960’s, it attempts a position on race that I’m sure would not be found acceptable today, but was interesting to see.
(I’m reminded that a protagonist of Infinite Jest, really its hero, Don Gately, was an inveterate user of racial slurs, but I believe we’re only told this in a footnote, and don’t think we ever actually witness him using such language.)
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